Tensions surrounding U.S. talks with Iran over its nuclear program mounted ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, where he will urge lawmakers to thwart Obama’s top foreign policy initiative.

A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of the government's mass surveillance programs was working with American and German lawyers to return home. Anatoly Kucherena, . . .

Polish and Latvian officials are denied entry to Russia to attend funeral of opposition politician shot dead near KremlinMourners in Moscow have paid their respects to the Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered on Thursday, a . . .